Freudian slip

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Freudian slip

Any inadvertent verbal or written mistake that reveals, or can be construed as revealing, an unconscious or repressed intention, belief, thought, attitude, etc. Named for the Sigmund Freud, considered the founding father of psychoanalysis, whose work largely focused on the unconscious and repressed elements of the human psyche. He said the wrong woman's name during his wedding ceremony, a Freudian slip that sent the bride-to-be into tears.

Perhaps the most important indication of the Menniger-centeredness of the monograph is Friedman's adoption of the Freudian paradigm to explain familial relationships and their influences on institution building.

Lynch used an obviously mechanical chirping robin as a sign of hope and joked about the already blatant Freudian subtexts in his tale of sexual perversity by naming an apartment building the Deep River.

While that film was graphically Freudian, ``Audition'' approaches some of the same issues - abandonment, exploitation, the thin mental and physical membranes that separate pleasure from pain - with sadistic ingenuity.

The "first generation of feminist Shakespeareans" (represented here by Coppelia Kahn on Lucrece, 1976; Gayle Greene on Othello, 1979; Marianne Novy on marriage and the family, 1981) may have tended to treat literature and history in a Tillyardian reflectionist manner, valorized "image-of-women" criticism, and/or relied too heavily on Freudian notions of the family and its members.

With what might be called a new humanism, Watson reaches beyond the familiar oedipal narratives, the sexual sub-plots, and the economies of the gaze that have scripted traditional Freudian or psychoanalytic literary criticism.

The story - steeped in Freudian symbolism - is erotic and atmospheric, but it's not meant to scare the pants off you but give you a chill that comes from the dual temptations of the sexual and dangerous.

compares and contrasts how a (Theravada) Buddhist meditator deals with craving, how an Ignatian exercitant combats inordinate attachments, desolation, and false consolation, and how a Freudian analyst handles transference.

An appendix to Freudian Fraud summarizes more than two dozen studies that attempt to substantiate a link between toilet training and personality traits and finds none (Freud hypothesized that botched toilet training leads to a number of possible "problems," ranging from homosexual orientation to paranoia to a fixation with order).

More to the point, Clinton was attacked for allowing Jimmy Carter, repeatedly referred to as a "loose cannon" (put on your Freudian thinking caps, please), to cuckold him and Warren Christopher in the area of foreign affairs.

Using tools ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to its most recent, more historically responsive form in Caruthian trauma studies, and working from a foundation built by such post-colonial scholars as M.

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